Philip Hunter

Pan European multilingual news channel Euronews has appointed a new chair and CEO for its advisory board.

The departure of CEO Neil Gaydon from PACE, the world’s leading set top maker, followed a year of profit warnings triggered by two natural disasters, the Japanese Tsunami and Thailand floods.

The EU has come out openly against SOPA and PIPA while still legislating itself to combat online piracy.

The EBU has published a new specification for subtitling, based on the XML for file-based HGD content, to replace the existing EBU STL format.

Polish public service broadcasting in disarray over DTT as well as funding.

IPTV is only about half the pay TV story for the world’s Telcos, with cable and now OTT providing additional outlets.

The UK’s communications regulator Ofcom has exonerated cable operator Virgin Media from responsibility for content of programs provided by external broadcasters or other providers.

Both the UK's leading pay TV operators BSkyB and Virgin Media have recently announced expansion plans for Wi-Fi that could end up delivering TV to homes as well as public places.

Unlike the U.S., France has a rule forbidding mention of commercial products in news programmes, but that has run into problems with Facebook and Twitter.

The European Broadcast Union (EBU) is urging its member countries to extend the current pan-cointinental rights regime for satellite and cable services to all forms of broadcast.

Monaco Telecom is moving into the cloud with help of French IPTV STB maker Netgem.

Isareli company Novelsat is lobbying the DVB to create DVB-S3 by incorporating its satellite transmission technology.

The European Broadcast Union (EBU) is urging its member countries to create a single market for digital broadcasting and cinema.

The BBC wants to make high-quality Olympic content widely available on catch up via its iPlayer.

The rush to Internet-delivered multiscreen services is driving innovation and boom in tools for boosting network performance.

Click to purchase, advertising, betting and voting are key applications for companion screens.

BSkyB could end up totally independent from News Corporation, which currently holds 39 percent of its shares.

Consumers in the UK at least are now willing to pay to watch TV on mobile devices if quality is good enough, according to a survey by online streaming and encoding vendor Viadiator.

Although Asia is catching up with Europe in IPTV subscribers it is falling behind in the proportion of broadband homes reached.

TV Numeric, the only company distributing the French basic pay-DTT package, is considering dropping it after failing to gain many subscribers.

Europe has been battling against African and Middle Eastern countries to preserve spectrum, released by the digital dividend, for terrestrial services.